Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1931, Page 80

r ACROSS. 1. Synonym for the common rabbit. 9: French alehouse. 14. Describe. 20. To withdraw. 21. Appalling. 23. Abrading device. 33. Woman graduate. 24. Chinese fabric. 25. Horn of deer. 27. Snoop. . 29. East Indian civet. 31.Ear; = combining form. 32. Arablan seaport,’ 3¢. Resists openly. 36. Units of velocity. 37. A mimic. 38. Cohesiveness. 40. Love; Latin. 43. Persons to whom property is com- mitted in trust. 44. Pu's on. 45. Sails. - 47. Pertaining to an epoch; rare. 48. Competing specd. 51. Folded. 53. Lives. 57. The order of am- phibians. 58. Small drink. $9. Days before holi- days. 61. Village in Mono- na County, Iowa. 62. Distant. _63.County in Okla- ; homa. 65. Calculate. 67. The sesame. 68.0n> of the U. S.; abbr. 69. Note; Scotch. 70. Ventilate. 71, Assyrian god of war. 72. Lease. 73.0ne of an early Mongolian race. 76. Doctrines. 79. Robe worn by priests. 80. School; French. 82. Earlier. 83. Headcoverings. in 88. Roof timbers. 90. Retreat. 91. African tree. 93. Aquatic mammals. 94. Salamander. 95. County officers. 99. A Gypsy. 100. Spiced. 104. Imitates. 105. The south wind; 107. Roof of a mine. 109. Ramble. 110. A trolling bait. 111. Viper. 112. Square edge on L3 ° molding. 114. Animal doctor; 115. North - American Indian. ' 117. Approbrious. 121, Careless. 123. Egyptian plant. 124. Ancient Egyptian drums. 125. Pantograph. 126. Domain. 127. Sharpshooters. 128. Stitchers. DOWN. 1. Mountain in Ar- menia. 2. Beguile. 3. Shrewdness. 4. A card game. 5. Hotels. 6. Rank. 7. Spanish group of islands. 8. Not lethargic. 9. Man’'s nickname. 10. Interrogate. 11. Author of “Bar- riers Burned Away.” 12. Polishing stance. 13. Occupant. 14. Makes certain. 15. Sea bird. 16. Upright shaft in Buddhist temples. 17. Oblique, 18. South American monkey. 19. Irregularities. 28. Devours. 30. Dry. 33. The time of great- food 5 u b- est depression. 35. West Indian fish. 84. A thorn apple. 88. Vigorous. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, JULY 2 Mt 36. Graining tool. 37. Lake in Canada. 39. English cognomen. ¢ 41. Extinct bird. 43.0ne of a fifth century Teutonic tribe. 45. Talk at random. 46. Strength; French. 48. Hero of stories by Hornung. 40. Extract from a published work, 50. Superintendent. 51. Roman official. . 52. Pours off, ps 54. Surfeit. 55. Rotated. 56. Marketable. H 58. D:formed person. 60. Firmaments. 64. Indian of Tierra del Fuego, 66. Pragment. 73. Wood cut morlise. 74. River in Armenia. 75. Alludes. 76. Feminine name. 77. Organs. 78. Duck-like birds. 81. Poisonous weeds. 85. County in Texas. 87. village in Long Island. 89. Philippine ent. . Those opposed to idealists. 92. Biblical name: Num. xxvi.17, 94. Never: Cont. 95. Wheedle. 96. Supposes. 97. Exercising vicari- ous authority. 98. Slices of meat. 100. Emphasis. 10J. Tyro. 102. Weaving ment. 103. Disheartens. 106. The name of eight Popes. 108. Flavor, 111. Mine entrance. 113. Infallible. 116. Philippine Negro. 118. Where; Latin. 119. Undermine. 120. Wrath. 122. Foot of a bear. for peas- instru- Sunday Morning Among the Cross-Words How a Group of Skilled Federal Sleuths Caught Scarface Al Capone Continued from Eleventh Page which enabled the revenue agents to com- mand the testimony of any one who was found ever to have been connected in any way with a Capone enterprise Once “under oath, these ‘“prospects” were subject to prosecution for perjury if caught in false testimony. By this slow pressure was the story pieced out over some eight months. “The job progressed slowly, but very thoroughly. Not all of the many persons thus examined told the officers all they knew. But every one brought in contributed something to the chain of évidence. And as often as one could tell of an actual cash transaction, that much ‘was added to the income for the year involved. Altogether more than 1,000 persons were ex- amined formally, or interviewed, in the build- ing of the case. Naturally, it was not long after this process of inquiry got under way that the whole underworld community was alive to the pres- ence of “the Feds.” Then it was that every day’s activity became a new venture in dar- ing for the Intelligence Unit operatives. When Wilson once suddenly moved his Chi- cago operating base from one hotel to an- other, he was unable to inform three of his men instantly, That night, not knowing of the shift, two of the revenuers came back to the old place to report. On Madison street, half a block from the hotel, they spotted two gangsters, obviously waiting for some one. Instead of entering the hotel, the agents walked past the busy entrance. A few steps beyond they were hailed by a taxi driver waiting in line. They recognized the driver instantly as another Federal operative. He told them of the new headquarters location, handed one of the pair a match and resumed his wait for a fare. As the two agents moved on, they were im- mediately covered by two others who thus escorted them safely to Wilson's new ‘“office.” Had the field men turned into the old hotel, - as had been expected, the taxi driver and the two covering men woidd have followed im- mediately. g T incident is recslled as perhaps the 1! closest approach to a dramatic “bump-off” in the entire investigation. It was also amaz- ing evidence of how well informed Capone's men were of Wilson's every move. Such were * “the difficulties under which the tax men oper- ated. How perfectly all the scattered activities of the six Federal forces were co-ordinated through the Washington master plan is indi- cated by the fact that the day Capone’s in- come tax indictment was returned before Fed- eral Judge Barnes, the prohibition unit sprang its trap on a Capone liquor ring which ex- tended from Pittsburgh to Iowa and South Dakota. _These operations centered at Aurora, IIl, 35 west of Chicago, where three breweries turning out about 10,000 gallons of hger. & week. Simultaneously, on June 5, arrests were made in Aurora, Chicago, Clinton, Iowa, and Waterloo, Iowa. Mike Meyers, Davis Meyers and Joseph Dolf were arrested in Aurora. Within the hour, Gabriel, Paul and Tony Cinquina were arrested in Chicago as distributors. The same after- noon Mike Bloomberg was seized at Clinton, and Richard, Frank and Russell Price were arrested in Waterloo. Undercover Agent Joseph Hitzman, who operated in gangland as Joe Jerocec of Des Moines, brought alcohol from Mike Myers, in Aurora, on the promise that the roads west were “greased through every county.” If there was any difficulty of transportation, Meyers told his new customer, it would be in Lee County, Ill, about half way across the State. There, it was explained, “the political situation ain’t just right.” Several weeks later, Hitzman reported, Mey- ers and his salesmen were “highly indignant” when Hitzman told them of having been forced to pay to get a load through Princeton, Ill, in the next county south of Lee. Meyers told Hitzman to get the name of the policeman who “dared charge a road tax.” MAZING evidence of the close tie-up be- tween the racketeering operations and the business of practical precinct politics is found in the fact that the Chicago round-up which finally bagged Al Capone, also netted the con- viction of State Representative Lawrence G. O'Brien of Chicago, in a similar tax case. The same sort of indictments are now pending against County Assessor Gene G. Oliver and former Building Commissioner Christian P. Paschen of Chicago. Another remarkable part of the Federal strategy was that, although the “Big Shot” himself was the ultimate objective, District At- torney Johnson began his final squeeze on some of the smaller fry. To close in on Public Ensmy No. 1 right off the bat would have been a far more difficult job. Riding the crest of the wave of luxury, sure rounded by a perfectly functioning organization rehabilitated since his return from jail in Phil- adelphia, Capone himself was literally out of reach of the law. District Attorney Johnson proceeded, therefore, to build fires under some of the ranking lieutenants in the organization. Ralph Capone, the “Big Shot's” brother, was first drzgged in and sentenced to three years in Leavenworth for tax evasion. He is also under indictment for conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws. Next, Frank Nitti, financial genius of the Capone organization, was tracked down. He pleaded guilty on a tax indictment and is now serving 18 months in Leavenworth, Jack Guzik, another important cog in the Capone cabinet, was next. On a plea of guilty, he went over for five years. His brother, Sam, followed. Sam left Chicago for Leavenworth the day Capone went into court. Louis Lipschultz, brother-in-law of Sam Guzik, is also under indictment. Frank Lake and Terry Druggan, two powerful independent beer operators who divided territory more or Royalty Happy Dowon on the Farm Continued from Ninth Page examples. The former is a grandson of the late King Leopold of Belgium. Lord Edward Montagu, son of the Duchess of Manchester, lived at the farm for five years, working as a farm hand the same as his employer. He mar- ried an Edmonton girl, they went to England on a honeymoon and afterward came back to Calgary to work on his oil interests in the Turner Valley, bought to some extent with his earnings at the Rodney ranch. Then back in the region where the Prince of Wales has his E-P ranch lives the family of the late Count Henry de Foras of Savoi, a family of French noblemen who have lived there for many years. The Count Henry died recently, his sons and daughters carrying on. "At the beginning of the war the loyalty of this family to both their native land and the country of their adoption was shown when one son joined up with the French Cuirassiers, two sons with Canadian regiments and two daugh- ters with Canadian nurses serving in France. mmmytlwfmmmm Canadian West whose identity will never be known, refugees of Russia and the Balkan countries who 'had to flee for their lives. Now VA 1354 and then one of these is discovered making & heroic fight to win a living from the soil. But those who went out West with their, titles fully or partly displayed number many. There is Prince Erick of Denmark, who, before his marriage a few years ago to a Canadian heiress, lived on his farm near Calgary. In the interior of British Columbia the Marquess of Anglesey has a cattle ranch. The eighth Lord Aylmer lives on a fruit farm near Koo- tenay, British Columbia, the farm having been in the family since 1831. A Teutonic peer, Ethelbert, Count of Thun- hohenstein, arrived in 1926. A German colony has been started by Count Otto von den Hagen in Saskatchewan. Count Esterhazy is another Hungarian who turned farmer and brought other Hungarians to the fertile grain lands of the West. Two more noblemen are engaged at present as farm hands, prior to taking up their own land, Count William Ressegueler of Austria and a Swedish peer by the name of Count J. W. Hamilton, An Italian sailor, whose titled family runs back to 1200, is another of the aristocratic farmers of the region. Admiral G. Como, after whose family the beautiful Lake Como in Italy has been named and whose ancestral palace in Naples is today & museum, is-a relative of the King of Italy. . : - sxsd 3 ’ less peacefully with Capone and fought the law with him, took the “Guilty!” route to Leaven- worth. Tony “Mops” Volpe, one of Al's personal bodyguards, was snared by the immigration authorities for illegal entry, and is now await- ing deportation. His case is on appeal before the immigration authorities in Washington. About the same time “Machine Gun Jack™ McGurn took the legal count under the Mann act. HILE all this disaster was breaking about the ears of the Capone courtiers, Louis La Cava, once a Cicero gambler in Capone’s confidence, was brought from Pittsburgh by the revenue sagents for examination on the “income” of his old master. La Cava, himself close to indictment on a prohibition count, sought to ingratiate himself by a frank and friendly account of everything he knew. Similarly, another henchman was brought in from Florida, where Capone maintains his ex- travagant Winter home. Here he received fre- quent telegraphic remittances from Chicago. ‘This was more “income.” Another witness was “Two-Gun Louie” Alt:rs, formerly Capone bodyguard, who was returned from Colorado. He was indicted later for perjury, and is now awaiting trial. When such key men in the organization be- gan to fall before the law, signs of disintegra- tion began to appear all alang the line. The morale of the organization sagged, from the “Big Shot” down to the most insignificant runners and lookouts. And as things got “hot™ all along the racketeering front scores of frightened hirelings began to seek the cover of immunity. So important was this cracking-up process, once it started, that last March, when the dis- trict attorney at Chicago obtained an indict- ment against Capone for his 1924 income, the bill never was presented in court. For just about this time the big break in gangland's morale brought in new material almost in suit cases. In the two months following, the revenue men were able to perfect similar cases on in- come for the five years after 1924. As a result, the mass of Capone evidence finally placed be- fore the grand jury was so voluminous that three months were required to sift it. Whenever the Chicago prosecutors called one of the gangsters before the grand jury for ex< amination, his testimony was taken down in shorthand. When his recital was completed, the transcript was read once more to the grand jurors by an assistant prosecutor and again taken down in shorthand. The reading attor- ney then swore to the testimony before the - grand jurors. Thus there is a secure foundation for perjury action if any witness later changes his story in any vital respect. Seldom in American criminal history has a great round-up been conducted with such thor- oughness. In this respect, according to the Government’s indictment - experts, the case against -Capone was ironclad and holeproof.